Born in Subiaco, Western Australia, he was a self-employed business proprietor before entering politics.
In 2001, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for Agricultural Region as a member of One Nation.
After the resignation from the party of Paddy Embry in 2003, he and John Fischer were One Nation's only MPs in Western Australia.
On 30 November 2004, Hough and Embry co-founded the New Country Party, and contested the 2005 state election as such.
[1] He ran as the Palmer United Party candidate for the Division of Pearce at the 2013 federal election.